Mixed Race Studies

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  • As A White Mom, Helping My Multiracial Kids Feel At Home In Their Skin

    As A White Mom, Helping My Multiracial Kids Feel At Home In Their Skin Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-07-24 Kristen Green Last year, after months of watching — and re-watching — the movie Frozen, my daughter Selma, who is 6, announced she didn’t want to be brown. “I…

  • Not Your Post-Racial Future: Why Interracial Families Need to Talk About Race

    I have this memory that’s been troubling me for a while.

  • Competencies for Counseling the Multiracial Population

    The Multiracial/Ethnic Counseling Concerns (MRECC) Interest Network of the American Counseling Association has developed the following competencies in order to promote the development of sound professional counseling practices to competently and effectively attend to the diverse needs of the multiple heritage population.

  • The Color Conversation-Healthy Identity Happy Kids: Fostering Positive Racial Identity in Mixed Youth

    The Color Conversation-Healthy Identity Happy Kids: Fostering Positive Racial Identity in Mixed Youth Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) World City Center 3911 W. Adams Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90018 Saturday, 2015-06-20, 13:00-16:00 PDT (Local Time) Join our 3rd parenting seminar where we focus on issues relating to adolescence – specifically, racial identity. Hear a…

  • ‘Typical American Families’ photo exhibit to be unveiled at Emory

    ‘Typical American Families’ photo exhibit to be unveiled at Emory Emory News Center Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 2015-05-04 Kimber Williams “Typical American Families” highlights the many configurations that family life can take in America. Photos in the exhibit will be unveiled at a public reception at the Center for Ethics on May 7. Photo by…

  • Welcome to Seattle Public Schools. What race are you?

    Welcome to Seattle Public Schools. What race are you? The Seattle Globalist Seattle, Washington 2015-05-05 Sharon H. Chang “Welcome to Seattle Public Schools!” it reads happily. I’m cheerfully advised to use a checklist following to help me enroll my child in kindergarten. Okay, I think. No problem. My eyes scroll down the checklist: Admission Form,…

  • Negotiating Mixed Ethnicity/Heritage Relationships Seminar

    Negotiating Mixed Ethnicity/Heritage Relationships Seminar Coventry University Centre for Communities & Social Justice Room 152, Jaguar Building Coventry, United Kingdom Wednesday, 2015-06-24, 09:45-15:15 BST (Local Time) Historically, debates about ‘mixed race’ families have centred on Black/White relations concerning issues of identity, belonging and racism affecting the partner and their children. Though these issues have not…

  • Three Unmissable Books That Can Help Us Honor Our Past

    Three Unmissable Books That Can Help Us Honor Our Past Pacific Citizen: The National Newspaper of the JACL 2015-04-30 Ryan Kenji Kuramitsu, JACL MDC Youth Representative ‘It was books,” wrote social critic James Baldwin, “that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people…

  • Having Mixed-Race Kids Doesn’t Make You Non-White

    Having Mixed-Race Kids Doesn’t Make You Non-White Mom.Me 2015-04-20 Grace Hwang Lynch, Blogger Hapa Mama Adel Vardell photography Do white parents become “less white” when they have non-white kids? That question is burning up my Facebook feed right now, thanks to an essay in the New York Times last week. In the piece published in…

  • White Parents, Becoming a Little Less White

    White Parents, Becoming a Little Less White Motherlode: Living the Family Dynamic The New York Times 2015-04-15 Jack Cheng Amy Crosson Former Gov. Jeb Bush made news recently because he checked “Hispanic” on a voter registration form. This is obviously ridiculous from a scion of the Bush family (and Mr. Bush has said he made…